Just about one hundred yards from the Cathedral is the Priory (also know as the Abbey of St. Mary de Portu Patrum. Legend has it that St. Brendan founded a convent here for his sister, Brigid in 578, but the remaining buildings date from the fifteenth century. It is thought to have become an Arrosian priory around 1144, though there may also have been an Augustinian priory founded there around the same time. When the priory became fully Arrosian in the thirteenth century, the nuns may have been transferred to Inishmaine. The priory was still going strong until the fifteenth century.
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